At one of the local high schools they are not only using Facebook but it is all but required. History is my daughter did the local IB school and many if not all the teachers created teacher profiles and told the kids their Facebook account to contact them post school hours with no promise of an answer before school the next day. The kids were encouraged to create Facebook groups to assist each other which the teacher was asked to join allowing the teacher to watch what was said and done. The teachers seemed to like the out come and knew who was pretty much leading the class and who was dragging the class. My daughter and her friends/classmates really got off on using social media to help each other and it seemed to lead to forming closer bonds within the class. Jon From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Redirect website Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:39:57 +0000
Buy a new filter that is better at AD awareness. Iboss is very popular with the K-12’s in Ohio for what that is worth. We have an M86 which we are going to ditch, probably for an Iboss. If you really want to go the dns way you certainly could deploy a hosts file to student machines to kill www.facebook.com. User GPP to put the file in there, but that would impact anyone that uses the computer after a student has logged in. Get a new filter, you are going down an unmanageable road. We block Facebook for students also, and it bothers me a great deal. No legal reason that we have to and they just use their phones anyway. Embrace the tech and use it is my motto. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CSSU NetAdmin Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Redirect website We are a K-12 school district with 4 K-8's. Two use OpenDNS integrated with AD to manage who can get to what site. For example, adults can go to Facebook but students cannot. Because so many sites are providing content on Facebook, we need to figure out a way to allow Facebook for adults but not students at the other K-8's. We use Sonicwall for our web filter/firewall and its AD Connector really isn't great. Is it possible to redirect the Facebook url to a different website- Google for example- in Group Policy or can we deliver a host file and based on user either point to the real Facebook IP or not. (This way sounds real messy.) Thanks for your help!
